DAVID THOMPSON: The Urge To Call You Names.

It turns out that if you’re unhappy about the demographic displacement currently underway – say, in your own, modest neighbourhood, Cate Blanchett questions your humanity and thinks you need educating by actors.

Ms Blanchett, needless to say, is unlikely ever to face any of the issues illustrated above. Living, as she does, in a five-million-pound Victorian manor on a thirteen-acre estate near the overwhelmingly white town of Crowborough in East Sussex. And her other properties, including what is referred to as a holiday cottage in Cornwall, are similarly insulated from any untoward diversity.

As Ms Blanchett doesn’t have to use public transport for a daily commute, she isn’t likely to find herself sitting next to a masturbating African. And she isn’t likely to find all that vibrancy and enrichment crouching on her doorstep and taking a shit.

And Ms Blanchett isn’t likely to find exotic newcomers, these supposed bringers of our betterment, creeping into her garden at night and peering through her windows to watch her, and film her, for erotic purposes.

Well, of course Blanchett chose the path of least resistance for thesp in 21st-century England. Consider the alternative: The Monty Python legend, who has spent decades mocking religious dogma, was reported to Britain’s Prevent program for criticizing Islam. Andrew Doyle explains in The Washington Post why confusing offensive speech with a terrorist threat is a dangerous road to go down.

Similarly, in America, another aging actress reads the script to remain employable in Hollywood: Actress Ellen Barkin Says ‘Burn ICE to the Ground’ After Shooting of Violent Illegal Alien.